"Lukemeister, I am your father....zzzssszz..."

'I don't believe you , my father was a good Jedi zzzssszzz.. I'll fight you for that!'

Green_Armani

Hey that's not a floating metal/water ball thingy! Are you sure that's Bryce?

As my 3 year old son says "Are you kidding?"

Joking aside, it looks like you've got a start on something that is definitly going to look fine. I am beginning to realize I just haven't seen Bryce renderings by a true artist.

lol, when I used to paint, I'd pick all kinds of things for different effects. Tools, you can have only one tool or a huge bag of them, the trick is leaning to use them each and know where to apply them, oh and how

Green_Armani seems to be on the way to *owning* (not buy but think it) bryce

I used to use bryce but i couldnt find any decent tutorials. All the ones i went through were for objects or stuff that was beyond my capability at the time. I was looking to create planets and space but there were only a few tutorials for that.

pandabean, the tutorials, even if present, can help you only to a certain extent. You have to try things and discover things on your own. If you go by the tutorials, you'll be creating the same stuff that everyone else is. I am sure, that the artists here used tutorials just once or twice. They discovered things on their own and incorporated their findings in their walls.

The only tutorials that I ever found were on making landscapes. I love making abstract stuff and I guess from that extent I've taught myself. I looked at other work and kinda used that as an example of what I wanna do. Still a learner and a follower at this point Hey what do you guys think of this image http://community.webshots.com/image4/3/69/0/60336900kGberL_fs.jpg I made it like 2 months ago and I want to finish it but not sure really what else I can do to it or take away from it to make it a really neat wall. The reason is because it takes like 7 hours to render at just 1280x1024....I like rendering at 1600x1200.....sssssshhh!

If link doesn't work cut and paste this in address bar... community.webshots.com/image4/3/69/0/60336900kGberL_fs.jpg

G_A...you need to put a little yellow duck in the water...then it will be finished

Excellent work, BTW....Thanks again for the link to Mojoworld...I'm buying it today...

I don't believe that you are complaining about a rendering time of seven hours Green_Armani...

Check this out. https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=8&SkinID=5403 Took me 34 hours to render this one for a 1280x1024 resolution. Man, was my mom pissed off!!!!!!

Hey man thats no fair my wife won't let me since I got Bryce.........You can do the sphere being intersected by the rotating torus thing in Mojoworld too!! It is so cool................lucky mofo

I am sorry, 36 hours!!!

Damn, 36 hours for a resolution of 1024x768, not even 1280x1024. I hate this keyboard...

I guess it's all relative Dang 36 hours......what did you do in the mean time? Would've sucked if the power went out or something!

Well, this whole render time thing is kind of pointless but I'll tell you that one of mine took 5 entire days to render due to the large amount of glass textures used in it.... rendering time is meaningless really.

Thank God it didn't. I wrote the program, rendered a very, very small preview until It suited my vision. Started the render, and carried my daily functions as usual, went to school, etc. And it kept rendering on its own, undisturbed!!!

Right Jim. Darn, you stole one over me there...

Sorry ashMeister...... hehe....

Oh yeah just for the hell of I'm gonna render a radiosity dome of 150 spotlights center overd a glass shere within a glass sphere. Hmmmmm it might crash my computer, better not....

Maybe u should G_A. Might be fun

ka-boom!

Mrs. G_A: 'What was that?'

G_A: 'Nothing Honey, just my $2000 PC'

ka-boom!

@shu and Jim: 'What was that?'

G_A: 'Nothing Buddies, just my head'

the more lights and the more glass textures the longer the render time.....

@shu that was good Gotta run

Buzz Hog did some intricate glass-work that used to take 3 days plus to render....good-looking stuff, too. Haven't seen him lately...I figure he's caught up in this war thingie, being a Marine...